>> foreign nations contributing to a ground force to fight isil in iraq. the isi method is now coming under tin creased scrutiny. >> keeping watch on isil positions they've had recent success in recapturing territory in sinjar. now they're hopeful they can defeat the groups from other parts of the country and it's allies. >> the americans must intervene with permission from the iraqi

government. >> but prime minister hyder al abadi disagrees. we reaffirm that iraq did not need any grouped troops. we did not ask any country to send ground troops and we will consider such move an act of aggression. the increasing human rights violation against sunni areas in areas reclaimed from isil. goes ton say that reports indicate that iraqi security forces, kurdish security forces and their respected affiliated groups one of those groups accused of abuses is the popular mobilization forces. but president obama said that he won't authorize airstrikes to support them. it goes back to the 2003

invasion in iraq. that's when the paul bremer was send by president bush. he made a number of decisions that many say contribute to the rise of isil and sectarianism in iraq. speaking to my league, bremer denied the allegations. >> i did not kiss band or destroy the iraqi apparently. there was not a single member of the iraqi arm standing to arms april 17th as testified. the question wasn't to disfind. that was a make we should never have used that verb. the question is should we recall the army. >> the only real debate is whether grouped troops are needed whether they be western, arab, turkish or iranian in the fight against isil, and that debate is still raging. >> meanwhile, the international coalition is continuing it's

airstrikes against isil held territory in syria but analysts alone won't defeat isil in syria. who are these armed groups fighting in syria? is their main priority to defeat isil and are they united enough. we'll take a closer look. >> it's estimated that this is as many 1,000 opposition groups in syria. they command an estimated 100,000 fighters. the british government, which has give the go ahead in their strikes in syria as part of a coalition said that up to 70,000 fighters are described as moderate. they include the free syrian army with 20,000 fighters operating in idlib. and in damascus, anest made 25,000. and another group surrounding

aleppo totals 14,000 fighters. most of them have been fighting mainly the syrian army, which fights to keep ash har quarais babe basharkeep bashar al-assad in power. the russian air force has bombed all facilities controlled by isil. all revenue is vital to isil finances. but the institute said that the russian air campaign has mainly hit syrian opposition groups in the country side south of alep aleppo. assad's army is supported on the ground by fighters from the lebanese group hezbollah and other shia militias from iraq, iran, and afghanistan. high ranking iranian army officers are said to be leading the iraqi and afghan soldiers.

among those killed was a general from iran's revolutionary edwa edward. >> co-edtier of an online magazine focusing on middle east politics and culture. he said the problem here is that those in the coalition fighting isil have conflicting objectives. >> this is not anish that can be resolved solely through military means but requires engagement primarily in reconfiguring the state, regime both iraq and syria. here the issue if you look at all the parties that claim to have the defeat and destruction of the islamic state movement as a priority, you have very different and more often than not contra-dick tore if objectives with regard to the state, regime, iraq and syria

making cooperation between them virtually impossible. that means that a continued weakened state and zones without effective government authority and eastern syria and western iraq. it is precisely under such circumstances that the movement lice the islamic state movement, which is not particular will powerful militarily, cannot continue to thrive and then expand. >> the shooting down of a russian jet continues. they have stopped russian jets. the vessels have been reportedly prevented from leaving the port. comes after another incident earlier this week. officials there reportedly didn't allow a turkish vessel to approach the port. bernard smith is live for us in istanbul. we're thinking tit for tat.

>> exactly, and we've not got any official comment from the government. all we can get is out of the port shorts who say they're exercising an around wrath that they have in fdr so do this. they don't normally delay russian cargo ships from leaving point. it is on the black sea for russian cargo ships that we believe are given the extended inspection treatment. it is essential lay gentle reminder, i suppose, to russia from turkey that it, too, can make life difficult for russia like russia is making life difficult for it turkey with its economic sanctions speed. >> why would they feel the need to do this. it's a busy theater of

operations involving the russians and the turks in and around the border between turkey and syria, what is to be gained by doing this? >> first they have fried to calm things down. it was turkish prime minister with lavrov on the sides of the meet negotiation belgrade. turkey want to try to normalize things. russia at the moment mainly there what plat plat has been saying said it is not done punishing turkey for shooting down this fighter jet that strayed into turkish air space for a few seconds towards the end of november. so there are economic sanctions

that russia will impose on turkey. we're hearing reports that fruit and vegetables destined for russia is turned back at russian checkpoints and is having to come back to turkey. all of this turkey and russia need realize to normalize their relaxes in the conflict and fights as it escalates on the other side of the border with syria. >> bernard, thank you very much. stay with that story, rory challeng challenge lands has this from russia. >> it's been blocking turkish produce. there are going to be formalized sanctions coming in. of course, turkey controls the main straight that links the

black sea and the mediterranean sea. now these are and treaty that was signed in switzerland in 1936, turkey cannot stop russian ships from using that strait unless a state of war exists between the two countries. although attempt, we're not at that stage yet. perhaps what is happen something a gentle reminder to russia that it does control shipping in the black sea and the mediterranean more raps than russia would like. and it's a gentle reminder that russia might not have everything its own way. >> we're getting reports that 27 people have been killed by three suicide-bombers in the lake chad region. boko haram has recently carried out several attacks in the area. four of the country part of the multi national force against boko haram surround the ladies

and gentlemen three gunmen have been killed after attacking a car belonging to a police commander. it is the latest incident of a nation hit by violence. the country said its fighting insurgents. the armed men say they're just protecting their neighborhoods. >> when the sun sets what begins in a suburb of burundi's capital. pewier and a few others say they're protecting their homes from ruling forces and members of the youth wings, which they blame for the recent state of random and regular killings in the city. >> a little earlier we met two other young men.

they're dressed like police. he said he would use this today. they wouldn't say whether they're an organized unit, have a leader or where they get their weapons from. >> the police have been coming to our neighborhood to arrest and kill us. but at night we go out and fight them. >> what started out as peaceful protest in april against a bid for a third term by the president, has turned into armed violence people have been killed every night, and they leave the bodies on the streets. >> now they negotiate with the government that you cannot negotiate with the government when you are committing homicide

like this one. >> the united nations african union and human rights groups are concerned by the killings, which they all say have ethnic dimension to them. there are also killings following the 2010 presidential election but more people now seem to have weapons. >> if they decide to combine forces, the vigilante groups and the armed--the more organized armed groups, we could find a rebellion that is much more dangerous, much more sophisticated, and we would be able to bring together much more resources to challenge the state. >> the armed men told us that they would not give up until t they step down. many innocent people are caught in the middle. >> let's look at how burundi

became trapped in violence. now in may burundi's top court decided that the president can run in the elections. more protesters took to the streets, and tens of thousands fled the violence. later that month an army unit tried to overthrow the president. that coup failed. after delayed the election took place in july and the re-election was reflected. it was called a joke. later, the security council began to con den killing and torture at the level.

>> so now we have over 200 people, 220 people who have been killed. we have close to 200,000 people who have fled the country and are in refugee camps, we also have an unknown number of people displaced in burundi. the country has been through cycles of genocidal violence related to ethnic positions in the country. the civil war that took place isn't in the 1990s, it was related to ethnic divisions. so the there is a lot of credible reasons to be concerned. the violence is escalating and there is political en pass. i have difficulty believing that we're facing another ethnic

conflict in burundi. i don't think that burundi is divided in the same way and th thannest nice you had played much of a role in the current situation as it did in the pass. >> still to come on the ankle news hour. half of yemen is one step away from famine. plus thousands much suite koreans take the streets blaming lib invested in the government. we can look at ho how it happens appens >> a blaze erupted on friday because of a severe storm.

the state oil company said that 25 people have been saved. reports of multiple casualties are yet to be confirmed. we have more now from gentleman from azerbaijan. >> we're hearing from an independent mga, which is after the interest of flow they are claiming that 30 coup workers have been killed, and 42 from a platform. these were caught on yesterday. apparently it was a very strong wind off the coast. and then part of the pipeline mechanism. that's how nato carted but as we understand at moment, the official comments have not been forthcoming. that debate, john.

>> the world's food program slipping unfortunately and now half of the country now is at real risk of going hungry. we rely on day into the u.s. has more than doubled. had million half over half the hotel application. more than 21 million people urgently need some sort of help more than a million yemenis have been forced from their homes mackhomes. >> yes, the food insecurity has been very high even prior too

the conflict. yes, ma'am is dependent on word and over the last couple of months since prices increased it has only worseness top tha worseness. we do it to be able to reach them all. otherwise, more than half the population of this country is going to be in a very trillion situation in the coming few weeks. resources are need very quickly. children almost top meet these requirements. that's also fire department and

of course we see the support of all parties to be able to give us the freedom of warp. >> the funeral of a palestinian man shot dead by the israel military friday is taking place on the si. >> thousands of people have been protesting in south korea's capital. the demonstrators say in government policies seek to undermine workers' rights. we're in seoul with this report. >> determined to be heard. for the first time in that is than a group express their

anger. >> the government that ignored bubble billion will fight to excep. >> a second generation politician who was elected three years ago by a small majority on the promise of being more progressive. mark's father was president for nearly 20 years after a military coup in 1961. he's credited for driving the country's economic growth. so when his daughter came in for economic reformation many reviewed. >> he put these anti-ghost toastest on his job.

>> it is very serious. the freedom of expression and the values. it is very serie serious if they do this to ordinary people. >> but these ordinary people will not be deterred. they feel liking in has been going on for a while lou. around every could if. >> it isn't just the streets they're going to be heard. with more south koreans felling worse off than they have before they hope that change comes

between their silent prayers and the anger. al jazeera, seoul. >> rains in the southern indian state have eased in the main city has been opened to some flights carrying relief supplies. 14 patients died at an intensive care unit after floodwaters damaged their life support machines. many residents have spent days stranded o new delhi. >> the death in a southern city as a result of power failures going into widespread flooding has become a national towing point. on one hand the state government says that private facilities like hospitals should have been ready for the crisis of this magnitude in the city, but the

critics argue that despite the private facilities having to have these facilities right side in terms of back up generators and backups in times of crisis or floods in low-lying areas, it's the government's responsibility to have ove over all overexciting of what is and send happening in these areas. and how ready the state is more generally when it comes to dealing with such a disaster. now the debate is in terms of infrastructure. how prepared are they when it comes to power, communication and water, the very essentials needed in these times of crisis. and the debate will continue some time left despite relief recovery adding answers a

shrinking army. som shrinking area. some homes have already disappeared. >> they say they can barely get out of the house during the rainy season much less work. >> it gets really muddy here. i can't see where i'm walking, so i slip and fall all the time. the monsoon is very dangerous for me. >> his home is vanishing left. bengal is on the front line of climate change. half of the area has been swallow they say that this was the strongest monsoons that people here can remember.

rapes so much. then you have. the water would erode away homes, but this time they just smash them away. >> this was the location of the largers ferry dock,s main connection to the rest of the country. the landing was swept away by the waves a few months ago leaving an already remote island even more isolated. with no ferries to the mainland its difficult to find a job even though the rainy season is over. and it seems that there is not enough going on in the island economy to accommodate those with disabilities. >> we need to get out on the boat, all the way out in the water and work with nets with others. i can't do the work without my eyes, so the boats don't hire me. >> after a rainy season, he's worried that he may have to leave his home once again.

>> but with no te help. >> now we're investigating the acts as an act of terrorism. >> there is no hard evidence that the couple behind the shooting in california acted on instructs from isil. support slippining after corruption scandals.

>> stopping the next generation of isis recruits. teaching the youth on the front lines. working towards a better future. >> this is one of the most important sites in the century. >> proudest moment of my life. >> youyou're watching the al jazeera news hour. the turkish authorities in the black sea port are searching for russian cargo ships. vessels have reportedly been

prevented from leaving the port. the government said it is fighting insurgents in burundi. the prime minister mr. al abadi said that his forces are able to push isil fighters out alone but there is increasing scrutiny about the way in which it does that. let's get more on what is going on on the ground inside syria and the campaign how do they talk to and communicate with those moderate fighters on the ground inside syria? >> well, the problem with communicating with moderate fighters inside syria is

actually to identify them. and the united states basically identified just one group. that's the ypg. the kurdish fighters. who are--who control the territory along the north of syria, long its border with fur can i. these are the people who defended this city of kobane a year ago. a large majority of them are close air support for the ypg. >> hoiraq saying that turkish forces in iraq should not be there. >> well, this is a very interesting development. first the turkish base, which is about 15 kilometers east of the

center of mosul have been there for a number of months. it now has 250 troops, and the troops have come in basically operates as an independent country. and the fact that they're there is simply a sign of the fact that iraq has disintegrated, and that turkey has decided to align itself with a soon to be independent kurdistan rather than with iranian dominated

iraq. when you say iraq has disincident grated, he said ours is a federation, a federal country, and it is work very well righ just now. >> well, that is a little hard to believe. it is true that the institution sets up a system giving the regions like kurdistan's enormous amount of autonomy. to suggest it is working, it says that iraq does not committees. the iraqi army is an as far as. it was equipped with billions of dollars to advance american equipment. there were 30,000 troops in mosul in jail of 2014. a force of perhaps fewer 1,000 not nearly well armed as islamic

state fighters. they clapped in a couple of days. and the reason the islamic state has become such a threat is that it has the very advance equipment provided to the iraqi army. iraq is the government in iraq is a shiite government. it basically includes neither kurds more sunnies. >> you have araised a very interesting point. i'm intrigued by the points claimed by isil. this is them talking about what is going on across the border. treatment number one is deal with isil. stream number two is then address the issue of bashar

al-assad. between stream one and stream two, if the continuity of those moderate fighters on the ground begins to break down what does the u.s.-led coalition do at that point? >> okay, well we're talking about again about syria. the main forces are the kurdish forces and they're not going to advance beyond the kurdish areas basically along the border of turkey. it is unclear even if isil is pushed back, the only force that is going to be able to push back and destroy isil and syria is going to be the syrian government. and at the moment that's not acceptable to the united states and a well, the gulf states and turkey. but there isn't a plausible

non-kurdish moderate force that is going to be able to participate significantly in the defeat of isil in syria and then some how turn around and take on the assad government. >> i guess that's one of the key issues nailed down for us. thank you very much. really iraq's president said that the country is in violation of law. several hundred turkish soldiers are said to have been deployed near mow cull under isil control, as we have just been hearing. but a turkish security official said that they have been to northern iraq on a training mission. the turkish prime minister has denied expanding military operations. the fbi is investigating the mass shooting in the state of california as an act of terrorism. there are reports that the woman who took part in the attack had

pledged allegiance to isil on facebook. gabriel elizondo now from san bernardino. >> a dramatic turn of events just 48 hours after a mass shooting killed 14 people. investigators are now saying it is a terrorism investigation. >> based on the information and the fact that we know them, we are now investigating these horrific acts as an act of terrorism. we have uncovered evidence that has led us to learn of extensive planning, obviously we've uncovered evidence of explosiv explosives. >> the first picture of tashfeen malik, the second shooter, a number of pieces of evidence has informed their decision on

terrorism but offered few details on what that evidence is. >> despite rampant speculation there was no evidence released by the fbi that isil directed the attacks, carried out by malik and her husband syed farook. neither suspect appeared to be on any fbi watch list. the fbi urged patience saying it might take a long time to get to the real motive. >> there is evidence in this case that doesn't quite makes sense, so we're trying to be very thankful to understand it, and make sense of it and understand the full extent of what we have here. >> officials say they don't think this was part of any larger plot, but that will do little to ease the worries here now more anxious than ever now

that it's being called terrorism. gabriel elizondo, al jazeera, san bernardino, california. the 25 tons of waste originally came from australian reactor producing radioactive isotopes for industrial use. >> we've got two main problems with this dodgy ship. first of all, the ship being used to transport this nuclear waste has a terrible safety record. secondly, we find this confusion about what is actually on the ship. is it high-level waste or interneintermediate-level waste. >> dilma rousseff said she's going to fight for they are

political survival. >> i will fight this impeachment process because i have done nothing, nothing that justifies this procedure, and primarily because i have a commitment to the people of this country who elected me. >> well, decides the political crisis, ms. rousseff being blamed for the country's deep recession. many of her grass-roots supporters are turning against her. >> they say that they're struggling to make ends meet. >> i think that the government was better than this one. it is difficult to sell anything these days. i'm not sure what will happen with the president. but we're worried about other things.

>> his wife has a beauty salon in the house. they say they wanted dilma rousseff, but now they don't support her any more. 15 kilometers away from congress, and they say they're not worried about the impeachment process. a few years of economic growth and stability people say that they feel the contraction of the economy. shops like this one but no are now almost empty. >> the economy is in recession, and there are several ongoing investigation involving politicians close to her. and now the impeachment effort, her political enemy. people have taken to the streets to protest against her government. we're told that more demonstrations are on the way. >> we're planning to carry out more demonstrations to pressure

congress to continue with impeachment and show politicians that they cannot support the government. the impeachment is not only by congress but by the people, too. >> analysts hearsay that the president is facing a real challenge. >> there is a great resistence or rejection because we're in a severe political crisis and we're in a bad economic crisis that is now going from a recession to a depression, so the country is in very bad shape. if she continues in office there is no way she's going to get us out of this situation. so the cards on the deck, on the table, are somewhat stacked against her right now. >> the impeachment process is going to be a long one. but people like antonio cruz say they want it to be over soon for better or for worse so that the country's leadership can start focusing on how to get the country's economy going once more.

er. >> plenty more to come here on the news hour. the tail of two french villages on the opposing side of renewable energy debate. and more with sana on the sports news.

>> now across the world is renewable energy takes hold more lands is taken up to build solar parks and wind farms.

france has more thannel hundred wind farms but that has resulted in legal disputes, and communities are divided with plans to triple output. nick clark reports. >> the region in central france. it's remote and rural. it will disturb the peace and tranquility. [ bells ringing ] unless you live near one of these. and here's the problem. two villages in central france operated bay ridge and eight wind turbines. the village has turbines on its territory but they are a long way from the town. the town of lavoine has no turbines on its land. but a full view of the blades. the electricity goes to san clement but not lavoine. they said that the nice is terrible and it has split the

community. >> the first thing is the noise and then there is the cost of soundproofing. hour house has lost a third of its value. then they destroyed woodland to build them any way. that candid be good for carbon emissions. >> back in san clement the wind turbines are out of sight, out of mind. >> this is clean energy. small win windmills, the turbine companies say the future is all about clean energy. >> in 2030 france is committed to renewable energy. and wind power is the easiest way to get there.

>> as for lovoine, they say the only way is to ruin countryside. >> they're only producing electricity 9% of the time. the impact on the landscape is terrible. you can see them 50 kilometers away. all that to not make electricity. >> this is likely to be just the beginning. there are proposals for another set of wind turbines. this kind of dispute will become more and more commonplace as local authorities in local communities try to find that balance between the need of keeping the landscape and local environment intact and growing requirement for renewable energy. indeed. wind power provides 3.5% of energy but there are plans to triple of wind energy by 2020.

nick clark, al jazeera, france. >> time for sports news. >> thank you. we start with the latest from the english parole. the leaderpremier league, manchester city scoring twice in the first half city with its first defeat in the league. enjoying home at sunderland. >> yes, to be promoted was fantastic season for them, and

they believe in what they do. they believe in themselves. and i can't forget that because they deserve that respect. >> 4-0 before halftime. later on second place atletico at granada and gary neville will be in the stands. he'll officially take over as coach on sunday. >> we know that it's very ditch to go to. we know with the new coach it will be very hard. it's always an extra incentive to try to impress the new coach.

we know it will be very tough. we'll try as much as we can to keep this winning streak. >> football's governing body fifa has promised restructura restructuring. >> they thought they were untouchable, but now u.s. investigators are plotting leading football officials from their luxury hotel beds or dragging them from cruise liners in the latest round of arrests. accused of involvement in corruption scandals. others are accused of trying to distance themselves from the investigation. >> i'm a public figure. for many years i have spoken out against illegal activity.

>> if it needs that one is innocent, then this must be done. >> to mmost of the 27 indicted by u.s. investigators this week and in may are from latin america. >> four or five senior managers of latin america. television rights, marketing rights, everything that had to do with money. they managing everything in the room. >> the u.s. investigators here raiding a spanish tv office in miami say that millions changed hands in bribes to grant lucrative tv rights to screen big games. who pays for the favor of these associations to deliver. they're ultimately the long suffering fans whether they live

in nostalgia of a game that once was. they complain of paying steadily high prices in shackled stadiums. fans wants their football cleaned up. in argentina they'll elect a new football president ended in chaos. >> football is dominated by the violent fans, they're banned from away games but these fans control players and sometimes officials who work with them. football is hostage to these fans. >> sepp blatter called the situation political, but no other country has tackled the football organization who are either too big to touch or in collusion with their governments. but it is all slowly becoming

exposed. >> cricket in india increased their lead in the fourth test in south africa. despite three kicks for more on the third day india got the first century of the series. rahane with 127, and they already lead the series, 2-0. lewis hamilton collected his trophy in paris. the mercedes driver has collected the 2015 fight. hamilton wrapped up his third drivers title with victory at the united states grand prix. >> it's been an incredible two years, three years with this team. so to be standing up here for the second year in a row i'm very, very proud. it's also great to see all these

congratulations and all the other champions who are here this evening. as i said, i know it's been a long night. i hope every is going to drink lots of free wine for tonight, and yeah, all the best for next year. >> champion jordan spieth has his share of the lead in the bahamas. he's 11 under. nine of the 18-manfield are within three shots of the leader. johnson is just at 7 under but had one of the shots of the day. that's it from me. >> thank you very much. amid a surge of violence, christmas preparations are under way in the bes west bank. weeks of unrest has dampened the christmas spirit.

112 palestinians and 17 israelis have been killed since the start of october. >> killing of palestinians, this affects the celebrations of christmas. religiously we'll go ahead with the traditional celebrations, no problem with that, but the atmosphere will be affected by that. >> we're celebrating today with a very control situation in palestine. check points and mostly still the message of peace and the political solution of peace is. >> stay with us here on al jazeera. another full bulletin of news is straight ahead. do check out the websites. www.aljazeera.com.

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>> franciraq insists it can battle isil without foreign help. and it is good to have your company. this is david foster with al jazeera live from london. also in the next 30 minutes. taking security in their own hands the vigilante groups operating in burundi in an al jazeera exclusive. progress in the submi summit in paris with a binding agreement that could lead to binding carbon e